Sony is building out their catalogue of non-MCU dependent titles, and after Tom Hardy‘s Venom takes the first step, Black Cat and Silver Sable are the next Marvel heroes set to headline their own movie. The studio has tapped screenwriters Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet to pen the most recent draft of the script for Silver & Black; the standalone movie centered on Marvel Comics’ war criminal-hunting mercenary, Silver Sable, and the Robin Hood-style burglar for the people, Black Cat.

The Secret Life of Bees and Beyond the Lights writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood will direct Silver & Black. Bythewood first dipped her toe in the Marvel waters when she directed the Cloak & Dagger pilot for Freeform. She also penned a previous draft of the script. Indeed, the Silver...